Title of film : Bird Thief
Director Name : Sounak Kar
Cast & crew :
Producer : Sounak Kar,Tumkar Sora
Editor : Sounak Kar
Cast :
Synopsis : In the foothills of Eastern Himalayas, amidst the dense forests of Arunachal Pradesh, resides the Galo tribe. Bird trapping is one of their age old traditions and bird meat is considered to be a delicacy. The film begins with a thief stealing trapped birds from their traps. When the young bird-trappers find the traps empty they accuse each other of stealing and break into a fight. At the pinnacle of the fight, the hand of one of the boys gets accidentally severed from the wrist by a dagger. Things turn serious and their families get involved. What started as an ethnographic film molds into a classical western vengeance drama. As things escalate and the peaceful mountain village erupts into a chaos, the bird thief feel guilty about he has done. He decides to take extreme measures in order to bring back peace in the village.
Director Bio : Sounak is an alumnus of SRFTI, Kolkata. His films have been selected in several international film festivals. He has written and directed the Bengali web series, ‘Fish and Chips’, which was released on Hoichoi, a leading Bengali OTT platform. He has written, directed, shot and edited a feature film, ‘Bird Thief’, in collaboration with the Galo tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. It was listed in the top fifty films nominated for the ‘FIPRESCI-India Grand-Prix 2022 Award’. He is the associate cinematographer and editor of the documentary, ‘Slave garden’ which received the ‘IDFA Bertha Fund for development’. He has also worked as a teacher for the last five years and is currently an assistant professor in Direction and Film History at SRFTI.
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